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04 Mar 2015 10:22:59am

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"I fail to see how you think that cheapening the risks and training of those people is not insulting."

I fail to see how you think it cheapens. I've been a patient in difficult circumstances and frankly you are cheapening my regard for my doctors. Your whole assertion is an arrogant presumption that I and other human beings are only capable of a finite amount of gratitude and respect and that somehow others are being robbed of it. It's a rather childish notion really.

"Indeed. Thanking anything not directly involved for helping the person being treated dismisses and cheapens all of those very real contributions."

And what do you have beside your own opinion that entitles you to rob others of their belief that God did make a real contribution? Can they not be grateful merely that they know that God is watching over them? Last time I was a patient my family did absolutely nothing of medical relevance, I was still grateful for their support.

"Insulting, disrespectful and rude to whom, exactly?"

Well to the people whom you are accusing of a lack of respect obviously. That you presume that they are only capable of a finite amount of respect and gratitude, which is the necessary condition of your presumption that doctors are being somehow robbed.

"I merely pointed out a flaw in your reasoning."

You really haven't. You have only showcased your own arrogance.

"What you claimed was that thanking god for a medical success was not insulting to a doctor and I simply pointed out how that was wrong."

You think that no doctors are Christian, Jewish, Muslim or any other the myriad other faiths? If you think so it is demonstrably false a flaw in YOUR reasoning. Many doctors themselves feel they are supported and assisted by God in their work. You are cheapening the faith that those doctors rely on every day and insulting their very right to believe and for many their inspiration to heal.

"I'm curious, whom do you blame when the treatment is not successful?"

I've been there. I still thank the doctor. I have had no reason yet to think that such a failure was a failure of my physicians. It is a truly immature psychology that is not capable of gratitude without resorting to blame.